The book “A Collection of Arab Poetry in Pre-Islamic times and Islam” / written by Abu Zayd Muhammad bin Al-Khattab Al-Qurashi. — Jamharat ashʻār al-ʻArab fī al-Jāhilīyah wa-al-Islām, Collection of Arab Poetry in Pre-Islamic Pre-Islam and Islam
(كتاب جمهرة اشعار العرب في الجاهلية والاسلام تأليف ابي زيد محمد بن الخطاب القرشي )

Name: The book “A Collection of Arab Poetry in Pre-Islamic times and Islam” / written by Abu Zayd Muhammad bin Al-Khattab Al-Qurashi. — Jamharat ashʻār al-ʻArab fī al-Jāhilīyah wa-al-Islām, Collection of Arab Poetry in Pre-Islamic Pre-Islam and Islam
Author: Qurashi, Muhammad ibn al-Khattab, 1000-1046, Hawshi, Abdullah ibn Salih, active 18th century, Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 8Hq

Title	The book “A Collection of Arab Poetry in Pre-Islamic times and Islam” / written by Abu Zayd Muhammad bin Al-Khattab Al-Qurashi. — Jamharat ashʻār al-ʻArab fī al-Jāhilīyah wa-al-Islām, Collection of Arab Poetry in Pre-Islamic Pre-Islam and Islam
Title Original	كتاب جمهرة اشعار العرب في الجاهلية والاسلام تأليف ابي زيد محمد بن الخطاب القرشي
Author	Qurashi, Muhammad ibn al-Khattab, 1000-1046, Hawshi, Abdullah ibn Salih, active 18th century, Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 8Hq
Publication Date:	1207
Publication Place	- 20 [Dhū] al-Qaʻdah 1207 [June 29, 1793?]
Subject	Arabic poetry—Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton, Poetry, Blind tooled bindings, Headbands, Gold tooled bindings, Autographs
Type	Book
Language	ar
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Pages Count	116
Library:	Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID	9963566993506421
Record ID	dcv405sp18p
Library Location	Special Collections Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 8Hq
Date	01-01-1793 T00:00:00 AH/629-12-31 T:Khas:Khasz — 1793-629
Notes	Pre-Islamic and Islamic poetry: al-Sumūṭ (al-Muʻallaqāt), al-Mujamharāt, al-Mutanaqqayāt [al-Muntaqayāt], ʻUyūn al-Marāthī, al-Mashūbāt and al-Mulḥamāt. \| Ms. codex., Title from title page (fol. 4a)., Marginal notes in red and black. Two short poems by al-Shaykh al-Qīrāṭī, a poem addressed to a certain al-Ahdal, two poems by Aḥmad al-Khallī eulogizing the Prophet, nine verses in praise of the family of Muḥammad and an ode by Abū Qāsim al-Nāshirī before the title page (f. 1a-3b). Following the colophon are several odes: one by Imruʼ al-Qays ibn Ḥujr al-Kindī, one by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Daʻdaʻ al-Saʻdī in praise of Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Wāsiʻ al-Qurashī with a tārīkh for 1208 [1793], another ode eulogizing the same by Muḥsin ibn Muḥammad al-Hannād, a eulogy of the Prophet by ʻAbd al-Qādir, governor of Kawkabān, and an ode dated 1210 [1795] (f. 113a-116b)., Collation: Paper; fol. 116 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals., Layout: 9-22 lines per page., Description: Verse separators and overlining in red ; watermarks (three crescents; roman-alphabet initials "FC" and "BA[?]"; other unidentified) ; MS in good condition., Origin: According to colophon copy completed Sunday 20 [Dhū] al-Qaʻdah 1207 by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn ʻAl[ī] al-Ḥawshī (fol. 112b)., Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه استعين فمن ذلك ما حدثنا به المفضل بن محمدالضبي باسناد عن عبد الله بن عباس قال قدم نافع بن الازرق ..., Colophon: بعناية سهر المالك صفي الاسلام والدين احمد عبد الواسع القرشي حفظه الله. تمت جمهرة اشعار العرب بحمد الله ومنه وکر[مه] بعد ظهر نهار الاحد عشرين شهر القعدة الحرام سنة 1207 بخط اسير ذنبه ورهين کتبه الفقير اليه تعالى عبد الله بن صلاح بن علي الحوشي وفقه الله تعالى وغفر له ولوالديه ولمالکها ولوالديه امين. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم \| Contemporaneous? type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Five gold-stamped mandorlas, a frame of gold dot-punched circles, and blind-tooled edging. Endbands. Possibly a type II binding with the flap removed. \| Ownership signature dated 1242 (fol. 4a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900. \| Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 12., Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 116., Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 1063, 1662., Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1107., Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 608/9., Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, p. 192

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The book “A Collection of Arab Poetry in Pre-Islamic times and Islam” / written by Abu Zayd Muhammad bin Al-Khattab Al-Qurashi. — Jamharat ashʻār al-ʻArab fī al-Jāhilīyah wa-al-Islām, Collection of Arab Poetry in Pre-Islamic Pre-Islam and Islam

(كتاب جمهرة اشعار العرب في الجاهلية والاسلام تأليف ابي زيد محمد بن الخطاب القرشي )

Author Qurashi, Muhammad ibn al-Khattab, 1000-1046, Hawshi, Abdullah ibn Salih, active 18th century, Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 8Hq

Publication Date 1207

Publication Place - 20 [Dhū] al-Qaʻdah 1207 [June 29, 1793?]

Subject Arabic poetry—Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton, Poetry, Blind tooled bindings, Headbands, Gold tooled bindings, Autographs

Type Book

Language ar

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Pages Count 116

Library Princeton University Library

Library Asset ID 9963566993506421

Record ID dcv405sp18p

Library Location Special Collections Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 8Hq

Date 01-01-1793 T00:00:00 AH/629-12-31 T:Khas:Khasz — 1793-629

Notes Pre-Islamic and Islamic poetry: al-Sumūṭ (al-Muʻallaqāt), al-Mujamharāt, al-Mutanaqqayāt [al-Muntaqayāt], ʻUyūn al-Marāthī, al-Mashūbāt and al-Mulḥamāt. | Ms. codex., Title from title page (fol. 4a)., Marginal notes in red and black. Two short poems by al-Shaykh al-Qīrāṭī, a poem addressed to a certain al-Ahdal, two poems by Aḥmad al-Khallī eulogizing the Prophet, nine verses in praise of the family of Muḥammad and an ode by Abū Qāsim al-Nāshirī before the title page (f. 1a-3b). Following the colophon are several odes: one by Imruʼ al-Qays ibn Ḥujr al-Kindī, one by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Daʻdaʻ al-Saʻdī in praise of Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Wāsiʻ al-Qurashī with a tārīkh for 1208 [1793], another ode eulogizing the same by Muḥsin ibn Muḥammad al-Hannād, a eulogy of the Prophet by ʻAbd al-Qādir, governor of Kawkabān, and an ode dated 1210 [1795] (f. 113a-116b)., Collation: Paper; fol. 116 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals., Layout: 9-22 lines per page., Description: Verse separators and overlining in red ; watermarks (three crescents; roman-alphabet initials "FC" and "BA[?]"; other unidentified) ; MS in good condition., Origin: According to colophon copy completed Sunday 20 [Dhū] al-Qaʻdah 1207 by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn ʻAl[ī] al-Ḥawshī (fol. 112b)., Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه استعين فمن ذلك ما حدثنا به المفضل بن محمدالضبي باسناد عن عبد الله بن عباس قال قدم نافع بن الازرق ..., Colophon: بعناية سهر المالك صفي الاسلام والدين احمد عبد الواسع القرشي حفظه الله. تمت جمهرة اشعار العرب بحمد الله ومنه وکر[مه] بعد ظهر نهار الاحد عشرين شهر القعدة الحرام سنة 1207 بخط اسير ذنبه ورهين کتبه الفقير اليه تعالى عبد الله بن صلاح بن علي الحوشي وفقه الله تعالى وغفر له ولوالديه ولمالکها ولوالديه امين. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم | Contemporaneous? type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Five gold-stamped mandorlas, a frame of gold dot-punched circles, and blind-tooled edging. Endbands. Possibly a type II binding with the flap removed. | Ownership signature dated 1242 (fol. 4a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900. | Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 12., Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 116., Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 1063, 1662., Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1107., Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 608/9., Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, p. 192